Macy’s national holiday hiring day is a lie

Troubled retailer Macy’s is creating yet another made up holiday – national holiday hiring day. The holiday will be on September 30th when Macy’s plans on hiring 83,000 seasonal workers to fill holiday positions in their call centers, distribution centers and fulfillment centers.

The move reeks of terrible PR and feels like a deceitful self-serving lie.

The national holiday hiring day represents how out of touch Macy’s is.

Nothing they do seems right.

Earlier this year, Macy’s announced that it was closing about 15% of its stores. This came amid six straight quarters of sales declines that were blamed on an increasing number of consumers moving to online purchasing – because as we all know, no one saw Amazon coming.

We have written a lot about the soft brick and mortar retail environment as well as the problems with Macy’s. Too many stores were built too fast with no vision of the future. Isn’t that the real reason?

“This blatant PR move once again demonstrates just how far Macy’s has fallen.

Its brand is in decline, stores are closing, sales are declining and yet it is touting a national holiday hiring day.”

National holiday hiring day should be laughable.

Now Macy’s is touting national holiday hiring day. I get the need to hire temporary people during this time of year. However, Macy’s bragging about creating the first national hiring day is simply a bad idea.

It’s a naked attempt to get people to forget it is shuttering 15% of its stores and firing the countless people affected by those closings.

Macy’s national holiday hiring day gets 1 star from me.

Thats 4 stars from great.

Have you ever watched a bad movie for a little longer than you should have just to see how bad it was going to get? Macy’s is much like that bad movie, getting a little worse with each passing minute.

This blatant PR move once again demonstrates just how far Macy’s has fallen. Its brand is in decline, stores are closing, sales are declining and yet it is touting a national holiday hiring day. It’s a major disconnect and a failure of the Macy’s brand.

Will the holiday work? Of course it will, but not because of Macy’s. People need jobs and others need a second job to make their children’s Christmas special.

Most people won’t be bothered by it, save the ones who are getting laid off in the store closings.

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